Copy a whole form.
Paste it field by field.

Hold ⌥⌘V. Your history appears while you hold — tap V or use the arrows to move through it, or type to search, then release to paste the highlighted item. No mouse, no window to manage.

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Open the Stack with ⌥⌘S and copy several things one after another. Then paste them in order — each ⌘V drops the next item. Set an after-paste action (like Tab) and it jumps to the next field for you. Perfect for filling forms.

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Select a block of text and press ⌃⌥⌘C. Klipto splits it line by line into separate Stack items, so you can paste them one at a time instead of re-copying each piece.

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With the Stack open, everything you copy piles up — text, links and screenshots. It's ideal for gathering references: pull images from Pinterest, screenshot posts from Instagram or any site, collect a whole batch, then unload them one by one into Figma to build a moodboard. Drag-out is one item at a time.

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Open the preview (press Shift while the popup is up) and Klipto offers the right actions for the content: strip formatting, convert a color HEX→RGB, prettify JSON, clean AI artifacts from text, and more — right before you paste. Press T to cycle your favorites.

More: Text transforms · Anti-LLM cleanup · Clean ChatGPT text

Yes. Type to search across everything you've ever copied. Built-in OCR finds text inside your copied screenshots and images, so you can search it — or paste the recognized text with ⇧Enter.

More: Text Capture · Paste text from an image · Search everything you copied · Extract text from a screenshot

Press ⌥⌘C (or the heart in the preview) to add an item to Favorites, and organize items into folders. Right-click a folder's name to rename or move it, or to reorder its items. Your email, address or signature stay one shortcut away.

More: Snippets and folders · Save the text you paste every day

Your clipboard history lives in a local database on your Mac — it is never uploaded, and there is no account or cloud sync. The app reaches the network for just one thing — checking for updates, which you can turn off. Buying happens here on the website; activating your key in the app is done offline. Your clipboard content itself is never sent anywhere.

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macOS asks for Accessibility access so Klipto can paste for you (it simulates ⌘V). Without it, Klipto still copies items — you just press ⌘V yourself. A short guide walks you through it on first launch.

More: Install steps · Clipboard security on a Mac

macOS 14 Sonoma or later, on Apple Silicon or Intel. Klipto is a native app — about 11 MB, no Electron — that idles quietly in your menu bar and wakes in milliseconds.

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Klipto started on Maccy's MIT-licensed core years ago and the two have gone their own ways since. Klipto adds what Maccy does not do: the hold-to-paste flow, the Stack (multi-item paste and Collect), the preview panel with smart transforms (colors, JSON, code, Anti-LLM cleanup), OCR search inside images, content-type detection, folders and the full-history window.

Maccy is free and open source, and it stops at the history list. Klipto is the paste layer above it.

Full comparison: Klipto vs Maccy · Free clipboard managers compared

Paste is a polished app on a yearly subscription. Klipto is a one-time $19.99 purchase — no subscription — so if you're looking for a Paste alternative without recurring fees, this is it. Klipto leans keyboard-first (hold-to-paste, Stack, transforms) and keeps everything on your Mac, while Paste is built around iCloud sync across devices. Want cross-device cloud sync? Paste fits better. Want a fast, local, pay-once tool? That's Klipto.

Full comparison: Klipto vs Paste · Local versus cloud sync

Pastebot is a capable, one-time-purchase manager, but its UI and UX feel dated today. As a modern Pastebot alternative, Klipto keeps the paste-sequences idea (the Stack) and adds the hold-to-paste release flow, a live preview with transforms, OCR search inside images, and Anti-LLM text cleanup — in a lighter, fully native app.

Full comparison: Klipto vs Pastebot 3 · Managers with no subscription

Clipy is a free, open-source classic, but it's a Carbon-era app built for Intel Macs — and as Apple winds down Intel support, its days are numbered. Klipto is a modern, Apple-Silicon-native Clipy alternative: hold-to-paste, live preview, transforms, the Stack, and full history with OCR search, all under active development.

Full comparison: Klipto vs Clipy

PasteNow centers on a visual board of clips with iCloud sync. Klipto is keyboard-first and local — no cloud board, no sync — with the Stack, transforms and OCR as the core. Two philosophies: a synced visual shelf vs a fast, local power tool. If you want the local, pay-once option, Klipto is the PasteNow alternative to try.

Full comparison: Klipto vs PasteNow · Klipto vs CleanClip

If you already run a launcher, you already have some clipboard history. Raycast keeps three months on its free plan, Alfred needs Powerpack, and macOS 26 Tahoe holds a short history inside Spotlight. Klipto is the layer above all three: unlimited local history, ordered multi-paste, transforms on the way out and OCR inside screenshots.

Full comparisons: Raycast · Alfred · macOS built-in · For developers · All of them, compared

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